BANANA OVERVIEW

🍌SUPPLY UPDATE

National Banana transport figures for Week 2 and Week 3 were released late last week which were some 519,698 cartons for Week 2, and 426,923 for Week 3. Temperatures in the far north are similar to be last week with early A.M. temperatures falling within a range of 20.8 - 25.5C across all major growing regions; and day time temperatures still ranging 29.6- 35.5C with high humidity. North Qld banana growing regions experienced further rainfalls associated with this time of year: Mareeba receiving 27.6mm for the week to date; Walkamin with 49.8mm; with regions like Innisfail receiving a total so far of 49.4mm and South Johnston receiving 58.6mm throughout the week. With these weather conditions growth will be fervent.

Banana displays varied across stores visited, noted a little sap staining and light skin marking present, occasional presence of bat/bird marking and sooty mould - but generally good overall.

Retail ticket pricing in Queensland for cavendish bananas found as follows: Aldi’s banana ticket price at $3.49/kg; Woolies offered fruit at a ticket price of $3.50/kg; and Coles were offering fruit at $3.50/kg depending upon store location.

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BANANA SNAPSHOT

Left to Right: Aldi; Coles and Woolworths Cavendish Displays

AVOCADO OVERVIEW

🥑SUPPLY UPDATE

In a nutshell the national production figures for last week were as follows:

Week 3, 2025 - Production for this week totaled 706,353 tray equivalents harvested and transported - included in this figure is almost 20% of sizing/grading of fruit for bulks/processing etc; there is also a portion being exported but this data is not available currently.

Production across the country saw WA/NT maintaining the lead in terms of production - accounting for 94.21% of the national production, followed by NZ accounting for 2.22% ; Tristate for 1.78% and Central NSW for 1.78% of the total production for the week.

It is forecast that a total of some 579,208 tray equivalents will be dispatched this week (Week 3) nationally, with the majority of these of course being Hass! Production for the next three week period thereafter, is expected to fall within the range of 618K-694K tray equivalents per week. It is also worth noting that early Shepards are expected to make an appearance in the central markets from next week. We have conducted our first round of dry matter testing from our Willows Rd farm - selectively choosing medium to large sized fruit with results coming back at 20.6% to 23.6% respectively. We will be conducting further testing in another week to two weeks, which will include smaller sized fruit, to gauge when we should commence our harvest. Fruit is looking very nice and will be something to look forward to.

In terms of Avocado retailing in the major supermarkets in Qld this week, we saw hass pricing stabilised across all major supermarkets - Aldi’s Hass at $2.19 each; Coles Qld stores visited had Hass avos at $2.20ea; and Woolworths were retailing Hass at $2.20ea.